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IH F T O R I 1 W SI
St. Mary’s student biweekly • Volume 76, No. 1 January 31,1991 • St. Mary's City, MD 20686
State slashes $600,000 from 1992 budget
Lack of funds to cause cutbacks across campus, staff reductions
By Phil March
staff writer
Facing a $430 to $500 million pro­jected
budget deficit for fiscal year
1992 (FY ’92), the state is expected to
mandate approximately $400,000 in
budgetary reductions for St. Mary's
College ofMDnextyear, about7.5%
of the total FY '92 budget.
This is following two earlier cuts
during the Fall 1990 semester; the
first was a one-time $270,000 budget
reversion in October and the second,
a nearly $200,000 permanent budget
cut, came only days before Christ­mas.
St. Mary's President Edward T.
Lewis announced the funding cut­backs
during a short speech made
Tuesday, January 22, in Montgom­ery
Hall before members of the fac­ulty
and staff.
According to John Underwood, St.
Mary's Executive Vice-President for
Administration, the cuts came in three
rounds. The first two, called "rather
unexpected" by Lewis, were adjust­ments
to the fiscal year 1991 (FY
'91) budget and have already gone
into effect. Round one of cuts, a one­time
reversion of funds caused by a
$150 million state revenue shortfall,
will not carry over into future college
budget proposals.
Round two of reductions, which
primarily involved cutting vacant per­sonnel
positions, will be permanently
carried over from FY '91 to future
fiscal year budgets. The third round
will not be finalized until the Execu­tive
Committee of the St. Mary's
College Board of Trustees meets on
February 1 for discussion of where to
make the cuts. Since both the second
round (FY '91) and third round (FY
'92) of budget reductions will carry
over indefinitely, St. Mary's FY '92
budget plan will be less approximately
$600,000 in comparison to the initial
FY '91 budget.
St. Mary's has been hit the least
hardest of Maryland's public institu­tions.
In the first round of cuts, SMC
was cutback only 2.5% compared to
the 4% to 6% budget reductions of
other schools, and in round three, the
University of Maryland's FY '92
budget was cut by 10.5%, or nearly
$70 million, while St. Mary's budget
Slade proposes new plan for
SMC, HSMC cooperation
Earlier merger plan nixed by Governor
By Phil March
staff writer
Delegate John Slade III, a Demo­crat
from St. Mary’s County, pro­posed
in December through a letter
to Governor Donald Schaefer a re­vamping
of historic St. Mary’s City’s
administration as an alternative to
the state budget office’s proposed
money-saving merger of St. Mary’s
College and the historic city. Earlier
in the same month, Schaefer had nixed
the merger proposal which was ini­tially
endorsed by St. Mary’s Col­lege
but not widely backed elsewhere.
Slade’s suggested restructuring of
the St. Mary’s City Commission is
aimed at increasing public aware­ness
of St. Mary’s City’s facilities
while protecting the integrity of the
archaeologically significant site.
Slade’s plan also calls for increased
cooperation between St. Mary’s
College and the historic city, the site
of the first English settlement in
Maryland. According to Rodney Little,
the state’s director of the Division of
Historical and Cultural Programs,
Julian Bond, civil
rights leader, spoke
on King's birthday
By Andrea Egger
news editor
One of the great leaders of the
Civil Rights Movement brought his
message to St. Mary’s College’s
second annual Martin Luther King
Day Memorial Celebration.
The program, held before a stand­ing-
room-only crowd last Monday at
St. Mary’s Hall, was highlighted by
Julian Bond’s speech on the contin­ued
importance of issues of world
peace, “economic justice and civil
rights.”
Bond has a long history of activ-ism
in the civil rights field. In 1960,
while a 20-year old student at More­house
College in Atlanta, he helped
to found the Committee on Appeal
for Human Rights, an organization
that won integration of Atlanta’s
movie theaters, lunch counters and
parks through nonviolent protest.
The Georgia House of Repre­sentatives
refused to seat Bond,
after he won election to a one year
term there, following court-ordered
reapportionment in 1965, because
of his outspoken opposition to the
Vietnam War. In 1966, Bond again
won the seat and was again denied
it, until a unanimous U.S. Supreme
Court decision ruled the House of
See BOND, page 10
was cut by 7.5%. "St. Mary's College
received special treatment," empha­sized
Lewis, "The Board of Trustees
has been very effecdve in advocating
the college."
Lewis felt that if the economy im­proved,
"so will the money in most
areas," but added, "There aren't any
projections for '93 you'd want to be­lieve."
When asked his opinion, Lewis
projected that the state may have
underestimated the fiscal year 1992
deficit. This could mean further re­versions
of funds next school year.
At the strong suggestion of the
Governor, St. Mary’s College of
Maryland has ruled out in-state tui­tion
increases other than the minor
increases previously scheduled.
See BUDGET, page 11
Schaefer intends to endorse the plan
feeling the status quo is not prefer­able.
The previously rejected merger of
the college and the historic city faced
“some strong opposition in the local,
community and state governments,”
according to Chris Cihlar, St. Mary’s
Director of Public Information.
Representatives of St. Mary’s City
opposed the merger expressing con­cerns
that the college would not pri­oritize
the preservation of the site as
does the present historic city’s ad­ministration.
The college strongly
supported the plan at its conception
but, after over $400,000 of budget
reversions this year, SMC would as
soon avoid the “added burden,” said
Cihlar.
Slade intends to submit his pro­posal
as legislation at the next ses­sion
of the General Assembly. The
plan calls for St. Mary’s City to be
run by a diverse nine member com­mission
representing all interested
parties. The commission would fall
under the Division of Historical and
Cultural Programs which is under the
direction of the Maryland Depart­ment
of Housing and Community
Development but would be consid­erably
more independent than the
present St. Mary’s City Commission.
The proposal also calls for consid­erable
interaction between the col­lege
and the city. Slade suggested
that the executive director of the
commission be jointly appointed by
both the St. Mary’s City Commis­sion
and St. Mary’s College and that
See HSMC, page 10
Van Gogh would have been proud. PHOTO BY AARON GARNETT
Grim outlook for
SMC graffiti artist
By Phil March
staff writer
A St. Mary’s College underclass­men
has agreed to remove the
roughly diamond shaped GRIM
logo that appeared across the
campus just before the end of the
Fall ’90 semester. The student,
whose name is being withheld, is
also believed by Annapolis City
officials to be the individual re­sponsible
for the same logo’s
appearance throughout the Anna­polis
Historic District in late De­cember
just after winter break began.
According to Annapolis City
Administrator Michael Mallinoff,
city officials will be deciding this
week whether charges will be
pressed against the student. They
are also attempting to work out a
plan with the SMC student to remove
the Annapolis logos, believed to
have been made with a large indel­ible
marker.
In mid-December, during St.
Mary’s winter break, the logo, which
could already be found in 18 places
around Dorchester Circle, began
appearing on electrical boxes, his­toric
building foundations and
planters along Duke of Gloucester
and Main Street in the Historic
District of Annapolis. A St. Mary’s
student living in the Annapolis area
recognized the logo in an Anne
Arundel Sun newspaper article about
the graffiti artist leading Bill Barker,
Director of Public Safety, to be­come
involved in the investiga­tion.
Annapolis city officials were
See GRIM, page 10

IH F T O R I 1 W SI
St. Mary’s student biweekly • Volume 76, No. 1 January 31,1991 • St. Mary's City, MD 20686
State slashes $600,000 from 1992 budget
Lack of funds to cause cutbacks across campus, staff reductions
By Phil March
staff writer
Facing a $430 to $500 million pro­jected
budget deficit for fiscal year
1992 (FY ’92), the state is expected to
mandate approximately $400,000 in
budgetary reductions for St. Mary's
College ofMDnextyear, about7.5%
of the total FY '92 budget.
This is following two earlier cuts
during the Fall 1990 semester; the
first was a one-time $270,000 budget
reversion in October and the second,
a nearly $200,000 permanent budget
cut, came only days before Christ­mas.
St. Mary's President Edward T.
Lewis announced the funding cut­backs
during a short speech made
Tuesday, January 22, in Montgom­ery
Hall before members of the fac­ulty
and staff.
According to John Underwood, St.
Mary's Executive Vice-President for
Administration, the cuts came in three
rounds. The first two, called "rather
unexpected" by Lewis, were adjust­ments
to the fiscal year 1991 (FY
'91) budget and have already gone
into effect. Round one of cuts, a one­time
reversion of funds caused by a
$150 million state revenue shortfall,
will not carry over into future college
budget proposals.
Round two of reductions, which
primarily involved cutting vacant per­sonnel
positions, will be permanently
carried over from FY '91 to future
fiscal year budgets. The third round
will not be finalized until the Execu­tive
Committee of the St. Mary's
College Board of Trustees meets on
February 1 for discussion of where to
make the cuts. Since both the second
round (FY '91) and third round (FY
'92) of budget reductions will carry
over indefinitely, St. Mary's FY '92
budget plan will be less approximately
$600,000 in comparison to the initial
FY '91 budget.
St. Mary's has been hit the least
hardest of Maryland's public institu­tions.
In the first round of cuts, SMC
was cutback only 2.5% compared to
the 4% to 6% budget reductions of
other schools, and in round three, the
University of Maryland's FY '92
budget was cut by 10.5%, or nearly
$70 million, while St. Mary's budget
Slade proposes new plan for
SMC, HSMC cooperation
Earlier merger plan nixed by Governor
By Phil March
staff writer
Delegate John Slade III, a Demo­crat
from St. Mary’s County, pro­posed
in December through a letter
to Governor Donald Schaefer a re­vamping
of historic St. Mary’s City’s
administration as an alternative to
the state budget office’s proposed
money-saving merger of St. Mary’s
College and the historic city. Earlier
in the same month, Schaefer had nixed
the merger proposal which was ini­tially
endorsed by St. Mary’s Col­lege
but not widely backed elsewhere.
Slade’s suggested restructuring of
the St. Mary’s City Commission is
aimed at increasing public aware­ness
of St. Mary’s City’s facilities
while protecting the integrity of the
archaeologically significant site.
Slade’s plan also calls for increased
cooperation between St. Mary’s
College and the historic city, the site
of the first English settlement in
Maryland. According to Rodney Little,
the state’s director of the Division of
Historical and Cultural Programs,
Julian Bond, civil
rights leader, spoke
on King's birthday
By Andrea Egger
news editor
One of the great leaders of the
Civil Rights Movement brought his
message to St. Mary’s College’s
second annual Martin Luther King
Day Memorial Celebration.
The program, held before a stand­ing-
room-only crowd last Monday at
St. Mary’s Hall, was highlighted by
Julian Bond’s speech on the contin­ued
importance of issues of world
peace, “economic justice and civil
rights.”
Bond has a long history of activ-ism
in the civil rights field. In 1960,
while a 20-year old student at More­house
College in Atlanta, he helped
to found the Committee on Appeal
for Human Rights, an organization
that won integration of Atlanta’s
movie theaters, lunch counters and
parks through nonviolent protest.
The Georgia House of Repre­sentatives
refused to seat Bond,
after he won election to a one year
term there, following court-ordered
reapportionment in 1965, because
of his outspoken opposition to the
Vietnam War. In 1966, Bond again
won the seat and was again denied
it, until a unanimous U.S. Supreme
Court decision ruled the House of
See BOND, page 10
was cut by 7.5%. "St. Mary's College
received special treatment," empha­sized
Lewis, "The Board of Trustees
has been very effecdve in advocating
the college."
Lewis felt that if the economy im­proved,
"so will the money in most
areas," but added, "There aren't any
projections for '93 you'd want to be­lieve."
When asked his opinion, Lewis
projected that the state may have
underestimated the fiscal year 1992
deficit. This could mean further re­versions
of funds next school year.
At the strong suggestion of the
Governor, St. Mary’s College of
Maryland has ruled out in-state tui­tion
increases other than the minor
increases previously scheduled.
See BUDGET, page 11
Schaefer intends to endorse the plan
feeling the status quo is not prefer­able.
The previously rejected merger of
the college and the historic city faced
“some strong opposition in the local,
community and state governments,”
according to Chris Cihlar, St. Mary’s
Director of Public Information.
Representatives of St. Mary’s City
opposed the merger expressing con­cerns
that the college would not pri­oritize
the preservation of the site as
does the present historic city’s ad­ministration.
The college strongly
supported the plan at its conception
but, after over $400,000 of budget
reversions this year, SMC would as
soon avoid the “added burden,” said
Cihlar.
Slade intends to submit his pro­posal
as legislation at the next ses­sion
of the General Assembly. The
plan calls for St. Mary’s City to be
run by a diverse nine member com­mission
representing all interested
parties. The commission would fall
under the Division of Historical and
Cultural Programs which is under the
direction of the Maryland Depart­ment
of Housing and Community
Development but would be consid­erably
more independent than the
present St. Mary’s City Commission.
The proposal also calls for consid­erable
interaction between the col­lege
and the city. Slade suggested
that the executive director of the
commission be jointly appointed by
both the St. Mary’s City Commis­sion
and St. Mary’s College and that
See HSMC, page 10
Van Gogh would have been proud. PHOTO BY AARON GARNETT
Grim outlook for
SMC graffiti artist
By Phil March
staff writer
A St. Mary’s College underclass­men
has agreed to remove the
roughly diamond shaped GRIM
logo that appeared across the
campus just before the end of the
Fall ’90 semester. The student,
whose name is being withheld, is
also believed by Annapolis City
officials to be the individual re­sponsible
for the same logo’s
appearance throughout the Anna­polis
Historic District in late De­cember
just after winter break began.
According to Annapolis City
Administrator Michael Mallinoff,
city officials will be deciding this
week whether charges will be
pressed against the student. They
are also attempting to work out a
plan with the SMC student to remove
the Annapolis logos, believed to
have been made with a large indel­ible
marker.
In mid-December, during St.
Mary’s winter break, the logo, which
could already be found in 18 places
around Dorchester Circle, began
appearing on electrical boxes, his­toric
building foundations and
planters along Duke of Gloucester
and Main Street in the Historic
District of Annapolis. A St. Mary’s
student living in the Annapolis area
recognized the logo in an Anne
Arundel Sun newspaper article about
the graffiti artist leading Bill Barker,
Director of Public Safety, to be­come
involved in the investiga­tion.
Annapolis city officials were
See GRIM, page 10